Sales-book



(No Mariel.)

C. A. PINKHAM.

SALES BOOK.

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Unirse S'rnrns Partnr @erica SALES- CHARLES A. PINKHAM, OFQUINGY, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,126, dated August 26, 1884-.

Application filed October 4, ISES. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: f

Be it known that I, CHARLns A. PINKHAM, a citizeny of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State oi' Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Saleslooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of my improved salesbook closed. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same open. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same open,with a portion of the pack of leaves thrown back over the upper end oi' the cover in a position ready for use. Fig. Ll is a longitudinal vertical section on the line .t :c of 2. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section on the line y y-of Fig. 2.

My invention relates to an improvement in sales-books for use in large retail and other stores, and has for its object to facilitate the recording of the sales; and to this end my in vention consists in a certain combination and arrangement of devices, as hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the said drawings, A represents the cover ofthe book, to one half or portion, b, of which is secured the pack, B, of printed sheets upon which the records of sales are written, each sheet having suitable lines or columns and indicating-words to guide the salesman in entering his sales, and also its proper number. This pack B is formed of two separate and iudependent series of sheets, c d,which are separately printed on one side only, and after being cut to the proper length and width, so that the under series, o, will extend beyond the bottom ofthe upper series, d, are attached at the top, by wire staples e, stitches, rivets, or other suitable binding device, to the top or upper end ot' the portion b of the cover A. Between the two series of sheets o d, at the center ofthe pack, is placed, as usual, a sheet of transfer-pap er, D, which is held in place by the binding wires c, this sheet serving the ordinary purpose of producing upon the sheet on which it rests a fac-simile or duplicate of the writing placed upon the leaf which rests on the trans fer-sheet. Immediately below the bottom of the short sheets d the longer sheets c are` each provided with a row ot' perforations, t', to facilitate the tearing off of the lower portion, it, which constitutes a coupon numbered to correspond with the leaf to which it is att-ached, and on which may be written the amount of the sale andthe number of the salesman. This coupon, formed by the extension of one portion of the pack beyond the other portion, and the transfcrsheet D, form, however, no part of my present invention.

The cover A is folded to turn over or open s-idewise on a line, Z, parallel with the side of the pack, and upon the inner face ofthe portion m are printed columns with spaces n, numbered to correspond with the respective 'numbers of the sheets of the pack B, the

amount of each sale being recorded in the space n, bearing the same number as that of the sheet on which the particulars of said sale are written, and by thus arranging the cover to fold over sidewise on aline parallel with the side of the pack B, instead of on a trans. verse line parallel with the upper end of the pack, as heretofore, all of the numbered spaces a are, when the cover is opened, brought into a position directlyT on one side of the sheet on which the record of the sale is written, none of the spaces a being above the upper end of the said sheet, as is the case with half of the said spaces when the cover is made to turn over on a line parallel with the top of the pack, and consequently the eye is enabled to catch thc required number on the cover much more readily, thus saving valuable time.

Instead of placing the binding-wires e at the top of the pack B, they may be made to eX- tend along the outer side, the line of perforations g being in all cases placed inside the line of attachment to the portion b of the cover.

I am aware of the United States patentof Chas. YV. Earnshaw, of August 28, 1883, No. 283,872, and therefore lay no broad claim to the combination of a pack of leaves containing a transfershcet with a cover having nun1- bered columns or spaces printed on its inner face, or to any of the details of construction described and shown in the aforesaid patent.

`What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a sales-book, apack of leaves made up of two sections, with a transfer-sheet between IOO them, so that all of the upper section except andreeordspaees are simultaneously exposed,

the under leaf must be turned hackl when the as set forth. Io sale is entered, neombnation with and se- Witness my hand this 2d day 0f October, cured to an outer edge (to one side of a een- A. D. 1883. Y

5 txal ine, l) of a. cover, having on theother OHAS. A. PINKHAM.

side of the central line, Z, a record-page prop- In plesenee oferly spaced, whereby when the upper half of P. E. TESCHEMACHER,

the peek is turned beek both the written leaf W. J. CAMBRIDGE. 

